In several categories KET competes with itself, particularly the magazine/feature segment category where it had five nominations, all for segments on its Kentucky Life program: Paul Smith, The Battle of Richmond; Smith, The Chitlin’ Circuit; Brandon Wickey, Migratory Songbirds at Red River Gorge; Valerie Trimble and James Piston, Good Shepherd Cheese – Say Cheese!; Frank Simkonis, Zombie.

Matt Hilton and Robert L. Shrader were also nominated in the magazine/feature category for a segment of Bluegrass & Backroads, which is produced by Kentucky Farm Bureau and shown on KET.

There were two nominations documentary – cultural/topical: Simkonis, Tracks of Imagination on Kentucky Muse; Matthew Grimm for Ted Bassett: A Kentucky Gentleman.

Amy Hess received three nominations for the program The Local Traveler, produced by Beloved Productions and Courage Media and funded by Gray Communications: one nomination for program host/moderator/narrator and two with Mike Benton for magazine program segment for episodes of the show. The entire 40-episode series is shown on Gray’s Kentucky and Tennessee stations — WKYT in Lexington, WYMT in Hazard, WBKO in Bowling Green and WVLT in Knoxville, Tenn. — and select episodes air on KET stations.